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continues, thieves or illegally making off with what water is left in the lake, water i'm not making that up in our money lead a ceremony here in washington today mark the release of a new quarter. the reverse sayyed, honoring former hawaii congresswoman patsy tukey modo make, congressman patsy mink, the first woman of color clerk ever elected to the house of representatives. it was in 1965. during her time in congress, congresswoman make promoted women's equality in education and in athletics she died in 2002, the year that caitlin clark was born in are things you don't see every day lead. how about an elephant roaming the streets of butte montana evil knievel's. sure. but an elephant there's a circus in town and viola, the elephant apparently got spooked by a car backfiring and she was being washed in the civic center parking lot and as is viola
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>> very disturbing warnings from boeing whistleblowers accusing the company of putting out defective airplanes while so engaging in a quote criminal cover up. we have details from their alarming testimony up on capitol hill welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world i'm wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room our covers begins tonight up on capitol hill where speaker mike johnson is staring down a conservative revolt volley to put critical foreign aid bills to a vote despite republican hardliners pushing to oust him. cnn's melanie zanona is up on capitol hill for us. melanie, what's the latest? >> yeah speaker mike johnson in the fight of his political life right now, he's decided to plow ahead with a package of foreign aid bills and really setting up a showdown with his hard, right? they are furious over this funding for ukraine
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and also the fact that it does not include border security provisions. johnson has promised to separate vote on a border security bill, but some hardliners say that is not enough. so there are issues now heading into some of these boats and it's looking like some of these republicans are threatening to vote against the procedural rule that is a key vote to get these foreign aid bills over the finish line, which means johnson is going to have to rely on democrats to get these bills over the finish line. and he also hi, it needs to rely on them to save his speakership, are jake tapper did interview the speaker in the last hour here and asked him about all of these threads through speakership. here's what he had to say. >> i've, not asked any democrats to get involved in that. i believe the house will do its whale. i don't walk around thinking about the motion to vacate. it's a procedural matter here that i think has been abused in recent times. it maybe at some point we change that right now. i got to do my job and so do all my colleagues the house is planning to vote on saturday on a number of these foreign aid
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bills. it does include 9 billion in assistance for humanitarian aid for gaza and other conflict zones that was a key demand from democrats. this package is also earned a stamp of approval from president joe biden. so after that is passed, if it does pass, it, we merge so together and sent over to the senate where they will sell have to pick it up before it goes to biden's desk here melanie, i understand. >> we just heard from the democratic house leader hakeem jeffries. what did he say so democrats have not yet committed to saving johnson. >> jeffries did say that johnson has not asked him for his support either. that procedural vote for the foreign aid bills or on a potential motion to vacate that does not come to the fore yet, but it's certainly something that hard-liners like marjorie taylor greene are threatening to do in the days and weeks ahead, jeffries did say that the democratic caucus is going to meet together tomorrow. they're having a special meeting where they're going to come together and talk this over more so could you see a decision coming out of that meeting tomorrow? something definitely look out for here, wolf. but it's just remarkable
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that democrats for the second time this congress now find themselves in a position where they could determine the fate of the republican speakership. >> well, lots of stuff going up by capitol hill, melanie, thank you very much. melanie zanona reporting. we have more for news up on capitol hill tonight as well. the us senate, moving very quickly to throw out the impeachment charges against the homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas. let's get reaction from the white house. cnn's priscilla alvarez is standing by their priscilla, how did this unfold and how is the white house now responding? >> well, bluff. this ended perhaps as quickly as it began. of course, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas became a top target for republicans early on as an affront to president biden's border policies. in fact, in february, the house voted to impeach him, making him the first cabinet official to be impeached in nearly 150 years. and today it is democratic-cont rolled senate squash the impeachment articles only hours after being sworn in. and since then, the white house has
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praised the senate, are doing exactly that. here's a statement from the white house spokesperson for oversight and investigations saying the senate has rightly voted down this baseless impeachment. president biden and secretary mayorkas will continue doing their job obs to keep america safe and pursue actual solutions at the border. and congressional republicans should join them instead of wasting time on baseless political stunts while killing real bipartisan border security reforms. now of course, in some respects, this also ends the work that was done within the administration over the course of the last few months, white house officials and homeland security officials were working behind the scenes to game out strategies and responses as all of this unfolded. and many times, what they did is use the split-screen strategy and basically saying that republicans weren't doing any of this seriously and weren't interested in border solutions again, calling it all meritless and a political stunt, but was never in question. was that the homeland security secretary was going to leave his post. he said from the very beginning that he was going to stay at
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the helm of the department and telling reporters earlier this month that he was focused on the work. but at the end of the day with his boil down to was the biden ministration immigration policies. and on that front, house, republicans are still very much going after the president for that. >> all right, priscilla, thank you. priscilla alvarez at the white house for us. for boron. what's going on? i want to bring in democratic congressman adam smith of washington state. he's the top democrat on the house armed services committee, congressman. thanks so much. joining us. we get to the dismissal of this impeachment trial in a few moments. but first would you vote for each of these foreign aid policy bills that the speaker, mike johnson, laid out. and then a possible plan to bundle them all together for the senate and the house accomplish all of this by the end of this week. >> yes. and yes, i believe i will certainly vote for the first three ukraine, israel, and taiwan at the fourth bill hasn't actually been released yet. >> i think it's supposed to be released like gas minutes from
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now. so i'll have to take a look at that, but i support this plan i think the house will pass it and it will be bundled together as one coming out of the rules committee that will be the rule and then it'll go to the senate and i've heard the senate is prepared to take it up fairly quickly. >> yeah, it looks like a sentence got the votes to pass it very quickly as well. you weren't it could take at least what, two months to ultimately turn this convoluted process into law. and that all of this is quote boiling ukraine two deaths slowly, your words, how much is the delay hurting ukraine right now on the battlefield? >> it was seven months ago when we should have done this and, you know and gosh, two months ago in the senate pass their bill. so the stalling in the lang that the house republicans have done has put ukraine in an incredibly perilous position. and it is also undermined the faith and the coalition that is helping them to defeat putin and to protect ukraine say huge problem and i'm glad that we now appear to have a path to get this done. but it is months
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later than it should have been in the cost has been high for ukraine without any question that's that's true. >> you heard the house speaker johnson say he's not asking democrats to get involved in a possible vote to oust him as speaker. >> but if he'll have just one vote margin is, you know, one vote republican majority margin in the house won't need your party for help. >> and are you personally still willing to help him i am, yes. >> now, look, i am not under any illusion as a democrat that i'm going to love the republican speaker of the house all i ask is for someone that we can work with and mike johnson has he's kept the government open. he allowed us to pass the appropriations bill so that process would go through a normal process. and now he's allowed us to have a vote and the sun credibly important supplemental. and i think that it shows that he can someone we can work with it. >> all right. in a respectable way. so it's not an endorsement of everything that
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mike johnson supports. but i don't think vacating the speaker would be good for the institution in this moment. and i certainly don't want to see what marjorie taylor greene would try to put in his place so yes, i am prepared to not vacate the chair. >> interesting. that's significant indeed, president biden, they face more protesters over his handling of the israel-hamas war when he was out on the campaign trail earlier today, this aid bill doesn't include humanitarian aid to gaza, but what message would it sent to? democratic voters who are upset very upset with us support for this war to pass more weapons to israel without any real conditions. >> i mean, some democratic voters who are upset about it, but there's also all what i believe is the majority did still recognize the threat that israel faces. i mean, or ron drove that point home last weekend israel faces a threat to their very existence. certainly from hamas, but also from hezbollah, iran, the houthis various other proxies
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of iran so preserving israel's right to exist as something that a majority of democrats do support. i understand there's a divide in our party on this but i don't think it's the case that the democratic party is all against israel. we are in favor of getting to a ceasefire and in favor of getting more humanitarian assistance in and a long-term solution that ultimately gives palestinians self-governance and a future. but that's not the same as abandoning israel to the murder preseason. what iran and hezbollah would choose to do to them. >> yeah, president biden keeps saying us support for israel and security is ironclad. he keeps using that word iron clad on that point. congressmen, that prime minister netanyahu said today that israel alone will decide how it responds to iran's weekend attack with crews, with cruise missiles, with drones. you've warned that israeli retaliation would be a mistake. so how should the
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biden administration handle this very, very delicate issue? >> one thing exactly the way they're handling it. >> look, we proved that we would stand up for israel if they were attack last weekend. >> the coordinated in response that enabled them to not suffer significant damage from that barrage from iran was in large part because of joe biden's leadership and bringing that coalition together. but we've also made it clear that we clearly have opinions on how to get to a more d escalated situation in the middle east. and we're going to express those opinions. luck and you literally prime minister yet now who is correct? we are not going to fight any fight for israel. they will have to decide what is in their best interests chris, but it's absolutely appropriate for us to say what we think is in their best interests given our long term alliance and the stakes that we have in an israel responding at this point, would a dangerous escalation relation that i think would place israel and greater jeopardy, not less interesting are congressman adam smith the top democrat on
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the house armed services committee. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks for and just ahead, how prosecutors are not planning to discredit, least have tried to discredit donald trump on the witness stand. >> if it's a huge if if he testifies, stay with us you're in the situation i've been touring the world with my music and now i want to focus on what's happening to our planet in carbon plus cnn films sunday at nine. >> it's the cabinets to go buy more, safe, more segall, save up to 40% on gracious home custom cabinets and a bit 40% on custom stock in premiere cabinet three collections. this sale ends april 19, hurrian today to get your dream kitchen. and get more wow, for less i'll go good news east and murder walking i'm sorry. what? >> she watches a lot of true crime. >> welcome to the family there's so much new the stuff
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also want to bring up the two verdicts the e jean carroll case for the jury awarded her nearly $90 after finding that trump defamed carroll and also sexually abused her. they also want to mention sanctioned by a judge in a different case where he found that trump filed a frivolous lawsuit against hillary clinton. they also want to bring up a settlement agreement between the trump foundation and the new york attorney general's office, where trump agreed to dissolve that foundation as part of that deal. and i also want to bring up the 2022 tax fraud convictions of two trump organization entities. that was just the case that went just before the same judge does justice one, we're sean, they these are all issues they want to be able to confront trump with on the stand to try to discredit him a trump's team has indicated that they're going to oppose some of this. the judge said that he will hold a hearing on these on this issue before he determines what prosecutors are allowed to do. now that hearing could be as soon as friday, if they do finish and select a full jury
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and alternates by friday if not, it will be later, but jury selection will continue tomorrow. wolf very interesting indeed potentially very significant. >> kara scannell. thank you very much. i want to bring in our legal and political experts for analysis right now, carry cordero is the introduction of trump's previous legal problems, something that judge merchan might allow come up if trump testifies. >> well, of the many different potential areas that the prosecutors want to bring up. the carriages reported on. i think some of them potentially could come in, but i would be surprised if all of them would. the issues that pertain directly to his credibility. so again, this is all in the context of if he decides to take the stand it is his right to do that or not do that as any criminal defendant. >> but things that go to the specific issue of his credibility, i think those the judge would take carefully, but if it starts to sound like the prosecutors are trying to just bring any derogatory information regarding his
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involvement in the legal system. >> i think the judge would want a cabin that to some degree alayna, as you know, trump has said, he is more than ready to testify in this upcoming trial, but he said that in the past that he is willing to testify before various forums, but he never did what do you think they'll say? >> well, he did testify a couple of times, very briefly, once in his civil fraud case that care was just breaking down as well as very briefly in the e jean carroll defamation trial, both times he really gave his political lines saying that this is a witch-hunt kind of campaign from the stand. but you're totally right whilst that a lot of times he says he wants to testify and then just, you know, he he doesn't end up doing so because his lawyers tell him that might not really be a good idea. i think they're telling him that in this case as well, especially now that they're seeing what prosecutors may want to ask him, and i think look from donald trump's standpoint and just have cup covering him for as long as i have he thinks he is his own best defender. he
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wants to be able to get up there, defend himself, say that this is a sham trial which is exactly what he's been saying when he goes in and out of the courts to the cameras, however, there are a lot of potential landmines he could step on if he does take the stand and i know that those are things that his team is telling him particularly with this gag order in place. it says, well, and so we'll see whether or not he ultimately ends up doing so. if he does, i imagined only be very breached as he will testify. let's see if he actually does audie. what do you what think you think he will? >> i think reporters so far have been describing a very different trump inside the court versus the one who comes out and speaks to everybody and tries to it's been the de also to your point and that e jean carroll defamation case, i think he was on the stand for something like three minutes and managed to be chastised like every 32, seconds. i don't know if his lawyers will want to go through that same process in front of a jury. but what i do know is that there are moments where trump is disciplined when it comes to
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the legal process. and so we will know the truth about whether or not he's listening to counsel. if he is disciplined during this process, you've say i have nothing to hide, nothing to hide more than willing to testify. let's see you know, in depositions and past cases, those comments have come back to haunt him and they may not want to go through that process here. >> well, and whether or not he continues to want to or thinks it's in his interests and what his lawyer's advice ends up being regarding his testifying is going to be determined by how the trial itself. so there's lawyers plays out, though testified at the beginning, i would think got probably is their advice now, but they also have to see how the trial plays out and whether they think it would be in his interests or not. >> what do you think about the way trump has reacting publicly right, darling, are you covering him very closely what he's saying about all of these things well, i think what he's saying is the same type of rhetoric we've heard him use with all of his different indictments as well as other three criminal indictments that
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he is facing but i will say i think one of the very interesting things about this case is donald trump's team actually sees this as the weakest of the four criminal indictments that he is facing. however, the fact that it is in manhattan in this whole jury selection process that we're seeing him sit through right now. that is what is very concerning both to donald trump himself, but also his legal team there are a lot of questions of whether or not he could get a fair trial in new york. we know we saw donald trump today, say that he thinks there should be unlimited strikes from his team to be able to remove people from the jury, not just the ten that they are allotted. and that's because he's worried about the makeup of new york. biden won new york city or manhattan specifically, overwhelmingly in 2020. and that is very much playing on donald trump's mind here. and i think that is also affecting some of his rhetoric when he comes out and speaks to the public, his lawyers and the prosecution, they each have four strikes left or eliminate various potential jurors. you know, a lot of legal observers audie that the seven jurors who
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have already been seated from trump's perspective, seem to be pretty good. >> i mean, i would defer to you a little bit about that. i think that we are all trying to overlay our ideas about partisan politics onto the legal assess and even some of these jurors themselves have made comments about how and why they believe they can still be fair. and i think we'd like to be open-minded about that. still have this sense that our legal system works because arguably donald trump believes that not one of these trials is fair. i don't think it would matter if it was in new york or down in florida, or where to him if he's saying publicly that these are partisan, if he's disparaging them, it really doesn't matter who's in the jury box, what matters to him is how he can reframe it for voters. >> interesting, right, guys. thank you very, very much. and to our viewers, you can always find audie podcasts. the assignment when audie cornish, wherever you get your podcasts, i recommend you do so coming
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saenz in scranton, pennsylvania, and this is cnn we're following new developments in arizona's abortion battle. the state's highly controversial civil war era bands still on the books tonight after republican lawmakers, once again blocked an effort to repeal it cnn's natasha jen is joining us from phoenix right now. natasha, this failed repeal, comes after public pressure from donald trump, republican senate candidate kari lake, among many others, to try to do away with this band. but what happened a wolf there were two failed attempts to try and get past procedural hurdles to even consider this repeal on the whole house floor. >> and that's because typically a bill needs to be
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heard then committee before it goes to the full house. that's what they were trying to get past and couldn't get there. it was a 30, 30 split there's a razor thin republican majority here, 31 republicans to 29 democrats, and they just couldn't get another republican to go with the democrats along party lines there. so we are hearing from both sides of this issue and it's very difficult because whether you call yourself pro-life or pro-choice, there a lot of nuances where each person really considers different, different things on what's reasonable and allowed as far as exceptions and punishments. here are a couple of lawmakers. one, the speaker of the house, republican on the house floor, followed by a democrat and a press conference after the fact here are criminal peanut associated with this. and that's a cilium each of us have to make our own different determinations. can about what level of risk that we're willing to take to continue to provide abortion
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care. and what's your threshold? are you willing to go to prison for this my threshold? >> is not going to prison. >> i'm sorry, you what you heard there was a comment from dr. deshawn taylor, she is a provider at one of the last remaining clinics that offer abortion services in the state of arizona? i think there are eight of them left and she was talking to me about how challenging it is at this moment because patients are confused when that decision came down last week, people thought abortion care was over right now. she's still offering abortion services for the short-term, trying to figure out legally what's next wolf hi, natasha. thank you very much to touch with. >> chen in phoenix for us. i want to bring in see you then. political commentator care, if any, and former republican congressman charlie dent. charlie, let me start off with you. is this a blender for the republicans in a key battleground state like arizona and a state where potentially
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the majority in the senate could be no, it's a horrible blunder. i mean republicans have not only a messaging problem, but a policy problem. they, they can't get out of their own way. they don't know what to do on abortion with roe gone. this is returned to the states and now we have arizona with this egregious ban and they don't know how to deal with it, and they're on the wrong that law in arizona probably has five public support right now. and so as long as they're on that in that position, they've just put the senate seat at risk. some house seats are at risk. so this is a catastrophe for the republican party and probably the biggest challenge they're going to face in this election is this issue. i was the last republican in the house of representatives to vote against the 20 week abortion ban and not the fund plan parenthood warn them about this. there are consequences post dobbs and you're experiencing right now in arizona, qarrah, what do you think? how does this move by republicans and arizona impact the democrats and their hopes, not just to carry the state in the presidential election, but also in the senate absolutely. >> look, it's been a disaster since dobbs fell. we've seen women being criminalized
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doctors being criminalized. we've seen just a parade of jr.'s with women having their lives in danger. and now, just the idea that in a place like arizona we're talking about a law that was passed at a time when women did not control pretty much anything of their life root level of vote, right black people weren't even considered full human being who were three-fifths in that's the kind of archaic as president biden would say, old ideas, that the republican party, many in the party are still defending. so think it's going to be a real problem with already seen president trump trying to have it both ways on the issue you're going to see president biden and democrats holding his feet to the fire, of course, for the vice president said, it's his fault that we're in this position with dobbs so i think it's going to play out up and down the ballot. frankly, we're going to see ballot initiatives that i think will help energize the democratic base. were also there could be a fight on access to contraception. so this message about reproductive
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freedom, altogether is going to be very powerful. >> it's a significant development and d chart president biden was in pittsburgh today for a campaign stop and he was near your old district, your congressional district in pennsylvania as well. he was greeted by some protestors with signs anti-israel, pro-palestinian signs. they're opposing his support for israel in this war against hamas how much of a problem potentially is this? the state like pennsylvania, those who are opposed opposing president biden's position on the israel-hamas war. >> well, i'm not sure how big an issue it actually is in pennsylvania, certainly in michigan, it's a big issue because because of their very large arabic population. but in pennsylvania, it is an issue. it's clearly dividing democrats and pennsylvania. i know democratic house members in the state who are under tremendous pressure from their own base over this issue. so it is a base erosion issue potentially for democrats so i
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think they have to be concerned about it but i don't think pennsylvania will be ground zero when i asked the question, it goes by narrowly, won pennsylvania at the last election, not by many correct. but now the question is, are these disaffected democrats going to turn around and vote for donald trump over this issue. or do they just sit it out? so that's a real challenge for the democrats right now. >> i think the issue is and this is what with young people write on college campuses, as you know, this is where we're seeing a lot of the activity and particularly among african american voters, because a lot of african americans actually are muslim and have real feelings about these issues. i think that what's positive is that the things that the biden administration is doing has created some space and progress and frankly, i think it's important for these folks who were peacefully protesting because i certainly do not want to do anything to endorse violence. >> it's actually having an effect because as we're seeing, biden is being tougher on net and yahoo and is really putting up more boundaries in terms of where and how the united states is able to be supportive. >> and i think that's a
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positive sign. i want people to know that their voices are being heard another interesting political development, charlie, my anxious to get your thoughts. the trump campaign is now asking gop candidates around the country who may be using his name or image to raise, to raise money, to give a chunk of that money to the trump campaign? >> its name, image, likeness, just like college sports. okay. except a look. if i were a candidate running for office and the trump campaign came to me and said, you need to pay me i would've said no, we're not going to pay you. you should be supporting us. so he's got this backwards. the top of the ticket is supposed to help those down-ballot not the other way around. it's just that money. rabbi says donald trump, they're combined licensing his name like he does. two buildings come on thank very much sick. >> i for the charlie dan, appreciate it. just ahead today's bombshell hearing up on capitol hill, new details that are former boeing employee accusing the world's largest plane maker of a quote,
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after whistleblowers warn lawmakers the airplane manufacturer routinely dismissed safety concerns and tried to cover up records of shoddy workmanship cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean has bore on this very disturbing testimony the crisis facing boeing has landed on capitol hill in duelling senate hearings wednesday, rapid-fire allegations against the manufacturing goliath once considered to be squeaky clean, every person stepping a boarding a boeing airplane is at risk. boeing concealment led to two crashes and 300 46 deaths the newest whistle-blower claim that boeing's flagship 787 is dangerously put together. >> sam salehpour served as a quality engineer at the 787 factory in south carolina. he alleges that large sections of the fuselage are put together with gaps that are too big. creative thanks, stress and where which over time could cause catastrophic failure,
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then you are operating at 35,000 feet details are that the size of a human hair can be a matter of life and death. they are putting out defective airplanes. >> boeing insists there is no evidence of fatigue failure in the sixth teen years, the 787 has been flying. there are about 1,100 operating worldwide and none have been lost to a crash. in a briefing for reporters monday, boeing detailed than it tested the 787 to 275 years of flights boeing is standing by the design saying, quote, claims about the structural integrity the of the 787 are inaccurate and do not represent the comprehensive work boeing has done to ensure the quality and long-term safety of the aircraft. if senator richard blumenthal called this hearing, what we see here is simply management that has been failing manufacturing that has defects and a broken safety culture. >> lawmakers anger is the
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latest chapter in a years-long saga of boeing disasters to seven, max crashes in 2018 and 2019 killed 346 people while abroad in january, a door plug blew off and alaska airlines 7307 max nine, whistleblower, ed pearson, told lawmakers wednesday that boeing is hiding key documentation about workers failing to install the door properly. >> i'm not going to sugar coat this. this is a criminal cover up. records do in fact exist this i know this because i've personally pass them to the fbi boeing for the record, referred are questions about the missing documents to the national transportation safety board. as for the alleged gaps on the 787, they are very small, about the width of a single human hair or two pieces of paper that is on a huge jet minor that can sit nine people across senator blumenthal says, passengers should not be afraid to step on a plane today, but that the issue is important to
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detailed. second-by-second movement of every first responder, how the fire moved no real blame assess to the emergency management and the decisions that were made, like the mayor of maui declining to declare an emergency and accept stayed health emergency manager who didn't sound the alarms. there was another report that just came out yesterday that was commissioned by the fire department in maui. it was done by western fire chiefs association and it really had very pointed things that went wrong in terms of communication. they used what's app to manage staff and a lot of the but firefighters didn't have that app on their phone. they didn't have enough staffing despite the red flag warnings. but overall, wolf, the lesson here is that nobody had the capacity to imagine at mile-an-hour blowtorch winds fueled by a hurricane, sending embers like rain across tinder-dry grassland. that is the new world we live in whereas our first response systems are still made for the old world. and that has to change. >> it's so worrisome and their
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separately in another report came out today and found that extreme weather is going to make the world poor by reducing global income, your new book centers on the letters you wrote to your young son about climate change. what kind? end of is he inherited? >> well, it's going to be a lot tougher. it's going to be hotter, it's going to be more than weather is going to be more erratic. the water cycles, it'll be harder to grow food and move it at our shelter will have to be stronger. our energy systems obviously causing this change with planet cooking pollution have to change and that's a scary thing. and when i first started these letters to him in 2020, i was in a dark place and there were so many, so much science around it. >> but the more i focused on the solutions, the dreamers, the doers, the innovators who are tackling problems with our air and water and shelter and food system comes in really inspiring, sweeping ways. >> the more hopeful i got. and so i just began collecting all these ideas on life as we know, it may be changing. life was
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annoyed can be, is a healthier, more resilient place and actually took lessons from people i met in maui who were just models of calm in those storms and how to keep people connected together and fill every part of their pyramid of needs at the time of the lowest point of their lives. i think we have to learn those skills to be able to be ready and take care of each other come what may tell us a little bit more bill about solutions as people clearly are growing more anxious about the climate. >> well, i was just back in paradise california where they're building a fireproof construction that is much stronger and much more resilient. i met in texas. we're seeing how that very red state politically is the greenest in terms of energy. there's more wind power and solar being installed in texas than california or other places because is now so cheap. now the challenge is creating ways to store that energy overnight and run factories. there's an industrial revolution happening, wolf that we're just not seeing. it's under the
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going on between trump's aides and foreign diplomats. there is a lot of maneuvering taking place and it's not without serious risk between court dates. >> he's acting like a man who's back in the white house, former president trump slated to have dinner tonight with right-wing polish president andrzej duda at trump tower in new york. the latest in a series of private interactions, trump has had with foreign leaders or diplomats. he's basically been holding court at his various properties in new york and florida hosting hungarian prime minister viktor orban at mar-a-lago last month, heaping praise on the hardline leader in videos posted on orban's instagram account. >> he said this is the way it's going to be in this. he had done the now he's a great leader fantastic leader, that meeting, drawing the scorn of the man who is in the white house. >> you know who he's meeting with today down in mar-a-lago or ban hungry who stated flatly
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he doesn't think democracy works. >> he's looking for dictatorship trump had recent phone calls with saudi crown prince muhammad bin salma and the king of bahrain. >> but it's not just strong men who are queuing up to meet with donald trump british foreign minister david cameron came courting at mar-a-lago in recent days, why the shadow diplomacy analysts say the foreign leaders are hedging their bets for the possibility of trump returning to the oval office, foreign leaders will also want to make sure that they have some kind of knowledge of president trump and what his intentions are vis-a-vis their country and the country trues interests. before he gets into office, that they signal that they're not going to be adversarial towards president trump should he get into office, or at least to collect intelligence? >> cnn and other outlets have recently reported that foreign diplomats in washington are frantically trying to set up meetings with trump's allies. and that trump's aides are encouraging other nations to send their emissaries to mar-a-lago. it's not unusual for an opposition presidential candidate to meet with foreign leaders barack obama and mitt
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romney traveled overseas to do it when they were running for president. but there's a risk for trump if he uses these meetings to undermine president biden nima lotto, we know that donald trump doesn't truly respect red lines. so of course they're, there is a risk that he is going to engage in some prospective foreign policy-making in these negotiations. >> and that would be a violation of the logan act, a law making it illegal for an american citizen to engage in foreign policy without the authorization of the current president, whatever what do you like to buy electric and a short time ago, the polish president andrzej duda, was asked by reporters about his dinner meeting tonight with donald trump. do to said, quote, this is normal practice. there's nothing extraordinary about it. he emphasized that this is a completely private visit and said it's taking place only because he happens to be in new york wolf. these foreign leaders are walking a very delicate line with this and they're being very careful. >> we'll see what happens.
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sorry, brian. thank you very much. i will. let's her in situation room, thanks very much for watching the news continues next on cnn good evening from tel aviv, where the question about israeli retaliation for ron's drone and missile strike over the weekend remains not if but when speaking today in jerusalem, british foreign secretary david cameron said, quote, it is clear the israelis are making king a decision to act what that might look like. we do not know, we will of course, continue to monitor developments here and bring them to you as they happen back home. the former president's new york criminal trial picks up again tomorrow morning, but today there was a new filing from the prosecution laying out their intention to use his past legal run-ins to discredit him if he chooses to tell testify, jury selection continues tomorrow was seven members already seated and the defendant, apparently in the dark about the rules for keeping perspective members off the jury striking them as it's called. >> he posted to a social network this morning writing, i thought strikes were supposed to be the unlimited when

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